Re: Some questions about GNUStep

[David Chisnall]

On 16 Jun 2010, at 16:00, Philippe Laporte wrote:

> Do you have more information on the OpenGL back-end effort? Or some pointers?

The back end that Riccardo refers to was experimental, was not finished, and 
has not been maintained for some years.  The most recent versions of Cairo have 
a very nice OpenGL back end, however, so tweaking the Cairo back end or Opal to 
use OpenGL for rendering would be as simple as requesting a different surface 
type.  

Of course, OpenGL is not a windowing system, it's just a graphics API, so you 
can't really have an OpenGL back end for GNUstep - you can have an X11 or 
Windows back end that uses OpenGL for rendering, but window management and 
input handling still have to be done via the underlying windowing system.  

David

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